Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business to find out. He tightened the contracts so that Columbia had an option on certain hours of its affiliates. In addition to cash, he gave the affiliates Columbia's sustaining programs free (National Broadcasting Co. charges for its unsponsored programs). He gathered 22 more stations into his network. Then he refused an offer of $1,500,000 by Paramount Publix Corp. for his company. He was out of cigars for good. Nine months after he had bought Columbia he sold Paramount Publix a half interest for $5,000,000. Paramount Publix paid $500,000 in cash...
From his flat-topped walnut desk in the far corner Col. Young can step to a wall map and survey the domain which he helped to build and over which he rules. There a network of dark lines traces 21,764 mi. of airway. Scattered white pins mark the nation's 2,034 airports. Lighted emergency landing fields stand out as 382 green pins while 53 blue pins designate radio beacons, 1,567 red pins, rotating beacon lights, 386 nickel pins, acetylene blinkers...
...when he was Governor of Bombay, Sir George Ambrose Lloyd (later better known as Lord Lloyd, Britain's iron-fisted High Commissioner for Egypt) inaugurated the scheme. Besides two dams which are. respectively, the largest and the second highest in the world, the project includes a network of canals and spillways 6,000 miles long. On it 77,000 men were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall...
Over National Broadcasting Co.'s network comes...
...Taussig '79, Lee Professor of Economics, will talk on "What the Consumer Should Do" as part of a course on "Aspects of the Depression." This will be one of the first of these Saturday evening broadcasts over the National Broadcasting Company network. W. B. Cannon '96, Professor of Physiology will be the next Harvard speaker, lecturing on "The Effects of Strong Emotion." In this talk, scheduled for January 23, he will outline some of the famous experiments performed in his laboratory at the medical school on the reactions of the animal functions of the human body to hunger, fear, rage...